How to format your references using the Current Dermatology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Dermatology Reports. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Ferry DK. Applied physics. Ohm’s law in a quantum world. Science. 2012;335:45–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Csete ME, Doyle JC. Reverse engineering of biological complexity. Science. 2002;295:1664–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Schultz PH, Staid MI, Pieters CM. Lunar activity from recent gas release. Nature. 2006;444:184–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Engin F, Nguyen T, Yermalovich A, Hotamisligil GS. Aberrant islet unfolded protein response in type 2 diabetes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4054.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Scheer J. Failed Bridges. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2010.

An edited book

1. Cunha JC, Rana OF, editors. Grid Computing: Software Environments and Tools. London: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Montalvo G, Pineiro C, Herrero M, Bigeriego M, Prins W. Ammonia Abatement by Animal Housing Techniques. In: Reis S, Howard C, Sutton MA, editors. Costs of Ammonia Abatement and the Climate Co-Benefits. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2015. p. 53–73.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Current Dermatology Reports.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. Scientists Find Traces Of Enormous Solar Storms That Once Hit The Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Airline Competition: Industry Operating and Marketing Practices Limit Market Entry. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Aug. Report No.: RCED-90-147.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Chhun S. Assessing the role of vacuolar trafficking in fifteen candidate env genes at the late endosome to vacuole interface in S. cerevisiae [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Stewart JB. Momentum for Tax Reform, Thanks to Trump’s Tactics. New York Times. 2016 Nov 3;B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Current Dermatology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Dermatol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2162-4933
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